Photographer's Note

Hello friends and colleagues, today I present this view of a typical facade of the city of Medina Sidonia, a city in the province of Cádiz in history, hope you like it, then some letters on the city.

The city of Medina-Sidonia is a Spanish municipality located in the center of the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. It belongs to the region of La Janda.
Is a Historic-Artistic and Cultural
The mountain on which it is located is called the Cerro del Castillo, which is the highest elevation of the entire western third of the province, from the foothills of the Sierra de Cadiz to the Atlantic coastline, allowing you to be spotted since an important part of the province, offering, at the same time, the extraordinary panorama of provincial surface. The city is oriented towards the Bay of Cadiz, which is why it is known as the Balcony of the Bay.

A small part of the municipality asidonense belongs to the Natural Park of the Acorns, one of the most valuable areas in terms of nature and landscape concerns in Andalusia. The term also hosts much of the route of the Green Corridor of the two bays, a greenway linking the Bay of Cadiz and Algeciras Bay.

The first settlements in the area of ​​which we have evidence, dating from the Late Bronze Age. Found in the Cerro de las Madres a lot of fragments of handmade ceramics and some stone tools. It seems that these people were in relation to culture tartésica.5

Then takes place the arrival of Phoenician colonists from Sidon, which will found a city (with the same name as their city of origin) on the basis of earlier Indian occupation.

In the third century. C. Romans occupy the entire peninsula was formerly in the hands of the Carthaginians. Around the first century will build a new town center that will occupy the entire space of what is now the Historic. By Augusto César Award, the city promotes its former municipal status and becomes entitled Roman colony (civitas optimo jure). It was known by the name of Asido, Caesarina, or completely as Caesarina Asido Augusta. It was situated in the Province Ulterior Baetica, belonging to legal convent Hispalensis (with capital in Hispalis).

In the Visigoth Hispania was also provincial capital and episcopal see of the Catholic Church, then known as Asidona, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seville which included the former Roman province of Andalusia in the diocese of Hispania.

In 712 the city was conquered by Musa ibn Nusair, commander of the Umayyad Caliphate, at the beginning of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. It was the capital of Muslim Cora Cora called Sidonia (also known as Arabic Saduna شذونة). Alfonso X the Wise recaptured the city on September 22, 1264, occupying the border against the Moorish Kingdom of Granada, which is why it appears in a medieval document with the name "de la Frontera".
At the time of the Reconquista was home to several military orders. These include the Order of Santiago and the Order of St. Mary.
In 1440 became part of the Lordship of the Dukes of Medina-Sidonia.
Source Wikipedia.
Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D3100
Software: PhotoScape
Exposure Time: 10/8000 sec
F-Stop: f/7.1
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
Focal Length: 32 mm
Date Taken: 2013-04-13 11:48
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average
File Size: 480 kb

I must have been very close to Cadiz when I was in Cordoba & Granada just recently. Good sharpness and shadow detail and the diagonal street starting in the bottom right corner adds dynamism. Nice warm cold colour contrasts between the red path and blue shadowed walls and tiled street. Tfs!

I would in future try with 100 ISO, we get a little bit grain on the picture.
But your picture is absolutely wonderful with all these old facades in ones street.
Excellent composition, nice presentation.
Very well done, TFS.

Well amanged the strong daylight reflected from the white houses, Angel, and the shadowed part here is in good texture. Not an easy task, yet superbly applied.
Nice the POV uphill's, details of the small balconies and lamps are beautifully collected.
Buen fin de semana,
Ike

Hi Angel,
I love how the flowers on the roofs of these buildings are catching the light, almost making them centre stage in this lovely scene. I love these scenes with no people, allowing us to concentrate on the beauty of the street. Great sense of the rising hill, and those trees on the left look like they are dancing :)

Great note too, as always.
Have a great weekend and best wishes from sunny Ireland.
Noel

Hello Angel,
this town has so long and rich history nicely described in your note.I like also your presentation of this lovely,old architecture!Excellent perspective and superb combination of good quality and lovely,bright colors.
Beautiful composition!

Hi Angel,
Beautiful old buildings that all painted in white color, clear to show the surface of the stone road too, fascinating street view that full with old feel, good pov to frame it all, distinct photo under bright sunlight, good shoot.
Ally